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Slough. The Dwelling House (Drawing)
'Slough. The 40ft reflector with all the woodwork down' (Drawing)
'Slough. The 40ft reflector just before its demolition, 1840' (Drawing)
40ft (Photograph of 40ft telescope at Slough)
'Site of the Twenty Feet Reflector at Feldhausen Cape of Good Hope Sepr 1834' (Print)
Site of the twenty feet refractor at Feldhausen, Cape of good hope (Print)
View of a tree near a river with cattle drinking and purple hill beyond (Drawing)
'Slough. View of the garden of the 40ft reflector dismantled. From roof of Observatory' (Drawing)
Slough. The 40ft reflector in process of demolition (Drawing)
Manuscripts regarding the 40ft telescope (Manuscript)
Eyepiece mounts
Drawing of Nebula in Argo (drawing, technical)
20ft (reflector) telescope (Telescope tube and mounting)
20ft Herschelian primary mirror (Herschelian primary mirror)
Pencil drawing of great sunspot
'Site of the Twenty Feet Reflector at Feldhausen. Cape of Good Hope Sept 1834' (Print)
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